Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-09-03

TO your own sliow,ny the eian IS t',a' f)r
will die this yeal are sl.lst ler zen Ara
you prepared for tbs t.e sSa 3Dus cxigeicy.
The most CONDEMNED mll in thu Judgment
day will be the unprepared life insurance
man, for the simple reason that his whole
business was connected with human exit, and
he cannot say: 81 did not think" His whole
business was to think on that ono
thing. 0, my brother, gel insured for eter-
nifty. In consideration Of what Cnri;5 has
done in your behalf, have the indensure iis
day made out, signed and sealed wish th red
seal of the cross.
But have words of encourag m snt and
comfort for those of my hearers vino are en-
gagged in the fire insurance business. You
are ordained by God TO stand between IIs AMI
the most raging element OF nature We are
indebted to you for what the national board
Of underwriters and the convention Of chiefs
of the fire department have effscts ! through
your suggestions and through yolr e1cour-
agement. We arc indeJiefl tn vni for what
you have effected in tlc c)4s ~ s'0n of
buildings, and in the cha e ia Tbs habits OF
our cities; so that by sciengi' " i ,'e'
orderly companies extingu,gh me iei. 's'tf
of the old time riots which Il ed G., ';tu:. 81
the citizens. And we are in lebe t +, yoI D.;
the successful demands you have male for
the repeal of unjust laws--for the battle yo !
have waged against incendiarism AL arso
theory that corporations have no souis by
the cheerfulness and promptitude with which
YOU have met losses from which Won nj INT
have escaped through technicalit &C. tn
law. do not know any class o. a'i % u
midst more high toned AMI W nj ot - :
dence than these men, and yet ha-, - =
times feared that wailc your chef bIi a 50
is to calculate about losses on earthly
property, yo1 might "i51out sufli lent
thought go N that walsh. in regard to
your soul. in your o"n parlan.e mi ht
be called "hazards,n "extra hazar Isl ''sDs-
cial hazards" An unforg ven sin in the soul
is more inlammable and explosive than cam
phene or nitro-glycerine. However the rates
NAV be-yea. though the whole earth were
paid down to you in one solid premium-you
cannot afford to lose your soul Do not take
thar risk lest it be said hereafter that while
in this world you had keen business faculty,
when you went out of the world you went
out everlastingly insoIvelt The scientific
Hitchcocls and Sill''nars anl MitcheIls of
the world have unit with the ri writer's
to make us believe IN, the e / coming a
conflagration to sweep g"-oss the earth, com
pared with which that OF Chicago in 1881. and
that Of Boston in 1872. and that OF New York
in 1875, were mere nothing, Brooklyn Oh firel
New York on firel Charleston on fire. S IN
Francisco on lirei Canton on firo. ST Pears
h'lrg on firel Paris on fret London o. i;el
the Andes on fi'el the Apprentices on ia the
Himalaya on lrel What will BE- y ALTAR
about tine day will be that the wat with
which we put out great fires viii il; y take
flame; and the Mississippi, and the o To- and
the st. Lawrence. and Lake Erie, and the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and tumbling
Niagara, shall with rel tongues lick the
heavens. The geological heats of the center
of the world will burn out toward the cir
conference and the heats Of the outside win
burn down from the circumference to tho
center, and this world will become not olly
according to the Bible, but according to s.i
ence, living coal, the living coal Il eswlrl
whitening into ashes, the ashes scattered by
the breath OF the last hurricane, aad all that
will be left Of this glorious pans5 viii be the
flakes of ashes fallen on other worlds Oh on
that day will you be fireproos, or will you be
a total loss? VIII you be rcs,Iel, or will you
be consumed? Whea this great cattle lral of
the world, with its pillars OF rocks, anl its
pinnacles OF mountains, aad its cellar Of
golden mine, and its upholstery of morning
CLOUD, and its baptismal font of the sen, shall
blaze, will youget cut on the Gre escape C.
the Lords delveraace, Oh on that day
for which all other days we's male my
it be found that thesl life iniir,i = "a N h I
a paid up policy, aal thess f. iislr J1ce sn~n
hal given them insispl of 80 I! ms o p
consumed worldly estate = no -. ils 3nl II
with hands, eternal in til helvel'